Will Quebec’s elections, scheduled for Sunday, once again ignore the collective concerns of Quebecers? In the last election, we were faced with a barrage of 366 pledges from the four major parties, strictly limited to provincial jurisdictions, that straitjacket that Canada imposed on Quebec in the Canadian Constitution.

We had forgotten one detail: most of the important actions of the Quebec government can no longer be carried out without intervention from Ottawa, even within the framework of provincial jurisdiction.

We can no longer ignore Quebec’s political dependence, as if the interventions of the Canadian government or courts were legitimate, of course, or, worse, as if our National Assembly’s laws, passed democratically in French and secularism, were invalidated in spite of Quebec could become Democracy and its elected representatives.

Additionally, Quebec is dependent on Oil Canada in the face of accelerating climatic upheaval that will require the intervention of a “fully practiced” state that is also capable of responding to the challenges of the economy and the distribution of wealth.

In the face of these threats to our nation’s future, we call on the parties to focus the campaign on the powers of Quebec and on the realization of collective projects for the future that those powers would make possible. Without a balance of power before the Canadian government, the Legault government’s fine nationalist speeches ring hollow.

Consecutive Rejections

Nothing illustrates their emptiness better than the successive refusals Quebec has suffered, not only in upholding its laws, passed democratically with massive popular support, but also in its legitimate demands for funding for health and social services, or in the power it wields of immigration claimed in vain.

In this last area, Quebec is faced with an untenable situation. Canada has a subversive immigration policy by setting the immigration threshold at over 450,000 per year. Quebec is a long way from absorbing the 100,000 immigrants a year it needs to maintain its relative weight in Canada’s population.

If Quebec maintains its current goal of 50,000 per year, Quebec’s weight could fall below 10% of Canada’s population by the end of the century.

Furthermore, at a rate of 100,000 immigrants per year, Quebec would not be able to maintain the proportion of Francophones in Quebec. With immigration of less than 50,000 per year, Quebec does not integrate in French 90% of the new Quebecers it would need to maintain its Francophone population, but around 53%. The choice Canada offers Quebec is simple: strengthened minorization in Canada or anglicization of Quebec! Elsewhere, Lord Durham recommended accelerating British immigration to Canada so that “the French of Canada should abandon their vain hopes of citizenship”.

Supports from left to right

Regardless of the filing, the CAQ government continues to claim it can get something from Ottawa. We denounce this mystification.

Even with 100 CAQ MPs, the government of Canada will always say “no,” no to secularism, no to France, no to the fight against climate change, no to health care financing, no to Quebec’s economic powerhouses, not to Quebec’s ability to build its own to make laws according to his own values. Just no!

We must fight against the detractors of Quebec who are rising up to the point of vomiting the mantra that the struggle for emancipation for Quebecers is a thing of the past. We must prove them wrong by voting for the candidates of the separatist parties in the next elections.

The struggle for independence must be restarted out of simple respect for the 35% or more sovereigns who are forced to pay taxes in Canada. The parties that believe in Quebec’s future must propose realistic projects, collective projects that will achieve popular consensus, but for which we will be deprived of the powers, budgets and international capabilities that we no longer have to leave to Canada.

Achieving independence requires rallying support from left to right, regardless of party affiliation, social class, or ethno-cultural background. Such a gathering requires cooperation between as many separatist MPs and civil society movements as possible.

Since 1945, dozens of nations have gained independence to freely dispose of themselves. Irish, Scots, Catalans, First Nations and many other peoples continue to fight for this right. For its part, Quebec has everything it needs to be successful in its independence project. He has an obligation to hold on to it and achieve it.

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